The Nothing Man

by Catherine Ryan Howard

Even if you were already

falling, you were technically okay until you hit the ground.

There was an especially acute heartbreak in having secured the job you’d dreamed of having for more than half your life only to discover that, firstly, it was nothing like you’d imagined it would be and then that, secondly, it had never really been your dream job at all.

‘Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.’